Cancer screening for the primary care physician

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 298-302

  Ashkar, Khalil ^a   Bulbul, Mohamad ^a   Sharara, Ala I ^a   Hourani, Moukbel ^a   Hamadeh, Ghassan N ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0035453023     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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